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Bill 127, Ontario Food Terminal Protection Act, 2019

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill amends the Planning Act . New

section 47.1 of

the Planning Act designates the lands on which the

Ontario Food Terminal is situated and the prescribed surrounding lands as a

provincially significant employment zone. The Bill provides protections for

these lands to prevent development or conflicting uses on the lands in the

future.

Bill 127 2019

Act to amend the Planning Act to protect lands in relation to the Ontario Food

Terminal

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

The Planning Act is amended by adding the following

section:

Ontario

Food Terminal lands

47.1

(1) The

lands upon which the Ontario Food Terminal is situated and the prescribed

surrounding lands are hereby designated as a provincially significant

employment zone, in recognition of the pivotal role the Ontario Food Terminal

plays in the Province’s agricultural and food network.

Protection

(2) A

municipality shall not, by by-law, resolution or otherwise, permit any

rezoning, development or use of the lands designated under subsection (1) that

would conflict with their use as an employment zone.

Regulations

(3) The

Minister may make regulations,

(

a) identifying

the lands on which the Ontario Food Terminal is situated more specifically and

prescribing surrounding lands for the purposes of subsection (1);

(

b) governing

the protections that apply to lands designated as a provincially significant

employment zone under subsection (1), including prescribing protections that

apply in addition to those identified in subsection (2).

Conflict

(4) This

section applies despite anything to the contrary in a municipality’s official

plan, in a growth plan made under the Places to Grow Act,

2005 or in any other provincial plan.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Ontario Food Terminal

Protection Act, 2019 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

June 5, 2019

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

June 5, 2019

Committee

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

Acts affected - Bill 127

Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-laws

Planning Act

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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